Artist Quote by Grandma Moses

No, the thing to do is try to make a painting that will be alive in your own lifetime.

— Marcel Duchamp

I think half the point of painting a picture is that you don't know what will happen... that if painters did know what was…

— Lucian Freud

Painting is, I think, inevitably an archaic activity and one that depends on spiritual values.

— Bridget Riley

I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.

— Paul Cezanne

The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?

— Pablo Picasso

If you're a painter, paint. But you don't have to put Jesus in every picture. Paint well, and if you paint well enough, they…

— Isaac Slade

My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.

— Agnes Martin

I paint what cannot be photographed, something from the imagination... I photograph the things I don't want to paint, things that are already in…

— Man Ray

Painting and drawing has been here for 35,000 years.

— David Hockney

The religions never wanted an art where you paint only what you see.

— Milton Resnick

If you understand a painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.

— Salvador Dali

I myself believe that there is in every painter's life a period of making absurdities. In my case I think that period is already…

— Vincent Van Gogh